hunch
/hʌnt͡ʃ/ verb C2- To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. · Don't hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems.
- To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). · They stood outside the door hunching themselves against the rain and puffing on their cigarettes.· He hunched up his shoulders and stared down at the ground.
- To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders. · 1983, Jack Vance, Suldrun’s Garden, Spatterlight Press, 2012, Chapter 18, […] wheezing and grunting he hunched across the room.
- To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
- To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
- To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
He/she/it hunches · Past hunched · Past participle hunched · -ing form hunching
Verb forms
- Base form
- hunch
- He/she/it
- hunches
- Past
- hunched
- Past participle
- hunched
- -ing form
- hunching
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It was a prostrate man face downward upon the ground, the head doubled under him at a horrible angle, the shoulders rounded and the body hunched together as if in the act of throwing a somersault.
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